Instead they strike up their gloating refrain — how Brexit is a catastrophe too complex for anyone to fathom, especially our hopelessly naive Government, and how Britain must think again.

To the rest of us, it confirms exactly why we have to leave. Here are Europe’s so-called statesmen, like snotty teenagers, uniting to punish Britain out of petulance and to deter others envious of our decision on June 23.

Why would we stay in this crumbling club that can only hope to shore itself up through threats?

Europhiles claim our Government is rudderless. Our EU ambassador Sir Ivan Rogers, the genius who advised David Cameron to ask for virtually nothing in his “renegotiation”, whinges that a trade deal will take a decade.

But it is Brussels’ elite who seem clueless — about the trouble the EU is in and how sick millions of its voters are of it wrecking their prosperity.

Belligerence towards the world’s fifth biggest economy and Europe’s major military and security power will backfire. It will not beat Brits into submission.